Letter: Holmes sees Obama's presidency through rose-colored glasses

Tuesday

Jul 22, 2014 at 3:47 PM

Columnist Rick Holmes' assessment of the Obama presidency published on July 15, is the product of either an uninformed person or a deliberate intent to deceive. He claims the president has suffered no personal scandals.

Columnist Rick Holmes’ assessment of the Obama presidency published on July 15, is the product of either an uninformed person or a deliberate intent to deceive. He claims the president has suffered no personal scandals.

Note the following: (1) Benghazi Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack killing our ambassador and three other Americans. He and his Secretary of State Clinton covered up the cause of the attack, assigning an anti-muslim video as the catalyst, long enough to get by the 2012 election.

He lied to the public and the United Nations. A current congressional investigation, which has already disclosed his White House staff as directing the coverup with him within earshot, is ongoing.

(2) IRS targeting of conservative and religious nonprofit organizations, deliberately delaying their applications for exempt status with a high- ranking IRS official. This official invoked the Fifth Amendment before a congressional investigating committee and recently disclosing that two years of e-mails to other agencies including the White House have mysteriously been lost; the ongoing investigation points up the Obama Administration modus operandi of coverup.

(3) The Veterans Administration unconscionable delays in treatment of veterans, which Obama knew of at the beginning of his presidency six years ago and which he promised to fix, has grown substantially worse as administrative heads have adopted his Administration policy of falsifying records regarding timely care.

(4) Obamacare, which was passed into law solely by Democrats, is imploding to the extent that Obama unilaterally changed the law by delaying the employer mandate and many other changes without going to Congress. He misled the public about being able to keep existing health insurance policies, about lowering premiums, about government management of health care, such as the websites debacle which is still ongoing, and the increase in our national debt directly resulting there-from.

Holmes acknowledges Obama’s retreat on foreign policy, which is an understatement to the Nth degree. Obama abandoned a bipartisan position of international strength, playing on American war weariness to suit his personal political gain to destroy our military preparedness and create the present chaos in the world with the so-called avoidance of war being the prelude to our loss of influence and dealing from a position of weakness and lack of credibility and giving our allies justifiable fears that we will not live up to our international commitments.

His executive action of suspending prosecution of illegal immigrant minors has opened our borders to a flood of unknown challenges to our security and public health, although he was prepared for the influx having contracted for buses six months ago to arrange for their movement all over the country.

He has not caused a worldwide recession ... yet.

But he has unnecessarily prolonged ours, adopting extremist economic positions, supported by Senate leader Harry Reid, which have resulted in ultimatums to Congress of “My way (Obama’s way), or no way!” No wonder that compromise never comes about.